Footrace Against Time

Anytime employers are asked about the skills they value most in employees, it's always in the top five. Senior managers and executives frequently cite it as one of the keys to their achievements. Business coaches, leadership development specialists and peak performance experts say it's essential to success. 'It' is the ability to communicate ideas clearly and persuasively. Yet, it's often one of the most overlooked areas of personal development. Despite the fact that we spend up to 60% of our ...
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A PRISON PLANET: I decreed my 'twin' into my life in early 1990. It is a story I tell in other books but I think even Edward House would have a hard time topping my gifts. She was the only woman with a brown card in California when she sat on the Governor's Blue Ribbon Panel on Prison Reform. A brown card allows you access to all Penal System buildings. She had once been put in prison because the FBI could not catch her Mafia bosses who had duped her and many others in a Huntington Beach land ...
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Walk into any home today and you are almost certain to find something which has been purchased from a New Age outlet. Crystals are of course everywhere. The Buddha himself may appear in the home office, looking well-fed and smiling as he does duty as a paperweight or mantelpiece decoration. Wind chimes may mark the entrance to a room or may be heard jangling merrily in the garden. The design of either the house or garden may well have been inspired by the supposed minimalist principles of ...
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For, as we are increasingly aware, the structures of human life in common are of different kinds, not only economic and political, but also cultural and religious; all of them condition human life, all of them can weaken or destroy it, and all of them are capable of being impregnated by the Gospel and of embodying a greater justice and charity. So it is worth paying unflagging attention to the different aspects of the contexts in which we find ourselves, lest we end up oblivious of the changes ...
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IMG SRC="http://www.chantingforhealing.com/images/group2.jpg" align=right WIDTH=260 HEIGHT=175 hspace=8 vspace=8> Paula Gilbert, one of the main artists and the producer of the Chanting For Healing Music CD tells her spiritual story of how the album was made. The album benefits global unity causes such as OxFam, RAWA, Twin Tower Orphan Fund, Global Exchange, and Food Not Bombs. Paula is a performance artist, songwriter and teacher who founded the Cloverdale School of Music in 1994. After 9/11 ...
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In ancient times, scientists, philosophers and magi divided matter into four basic elements: Air, Fire, Water and Earth. It has been said that these elements are the building blocks of life. A scientist and philosopher named Empedocles set this foundation for science in Sicily during the 5th century B.C. Empedocles belonged to the tradition of "Root Cutters," which means that he was an herbal magician and healer. He defined these elements, or "roots," as not only physical substances, but also ...
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The Right to Have One's Life Maintained This leads to a more general quandary. To what extent can one use other people's bodies, their property, their time, their resources and to deprive them of pleasure, comfort, material possessions, income, or any other thing - in order to maintain one's life? Even if it were possible in reality, it is indefensible to maintain that I have a right to sustain, improve, or prolong my life at another's expense. I cannot demand - though I can morally expect - ...
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So you know, roughly, what you want your home business to be. Before you go any further and start investing, though, you need to try it out. Here's how. Build a Prototype If you plan to sell physical items, or you're going to do something like starting a website or writing software, then you should build a prototype to see how your idea will work out. A prototype is a version of your product that is built quickly by you alone, and serves to show that your idea is feasible in the real world. If ...
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Quiet times in business happen to all of us. They happen to established Virtual Assistants, as well as to those just starting out. The phone stops ringing, your email inbox is so empty you wonder if your internet service is down and you can't think of a make-work project to save your life. The good news is that once you've experienced a few quiet times and learned that they always end, they'll lose their ability to frighten you. But I understand that until you have that experience there can ...
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Why should anyone start an online business? After it's all boiled down, the major factors are money, independence, and time. Money, of course, is the main driving factor for many. We all want to make more money. I've heard the following from many successful businessmen and entrepreneurs, and I'll throw my own agreement in with it as well. You'll never get rich working for someone else. Even those with high paying jobs don't rely simply on their salaries. They all have investment plans and ...
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I have a page at my website that contains a list of home business ideas (and links to detailed articles about some of them). On that page, I invite visitors who have an idea that isn't listed on that page to submit it to me for inclusion. Nine times out of ten, the "ideas" that are submitted are nothing more than ads for various online business opportunities and not true business "ideas" at all. This evening I received one such email. No greeting, no thank you, just a terse one liner "to be ...
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I have a page at my website that contains a list of home business ideas (and links to detailed articles about some of them). On that page, I invite visitors who have an idea that isn't listed on that page to submit it to me for inclusion. Nine times out of ten, the "ideas" that are submitted are nothing more than ads for various online business opportunities and not true business "ideas" at all. This evening I received one such email. No greeting, no thank you, just a terse one liner "to be ...
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This may be a decade of tremendous corporate profits and economic growth, but for the vast majority of North Americans, the 90's have been a dismal, uphill climb. And many economists believe that this next, new millennium won't be getting better any time soon. Why? Changing business and government attitudes are the reason. There has seemingly been more anti-business legislation in the last decade than in any other this century. Stronger employment and labor laws, the Age Discrimination in ...
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Stake Your Claim On The Web! by BB Lee (c)2002 mailto:smallbiz@angelfire.com Once upon a time the World Wide Web was a vast new wilderness, waiting for new settlers to discover their hidden territory. Now, that's changed. As many new Entrepreneurs are parking their sites left and right, grabbing a piece of the web for their own personal or business pages. With a bit of work and dedicated perseverance you can claim your own piece of the World Wide Web. Most Internet service providers offer ...
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Please note: We jealously guard your email address and private information. We do not share, rent, sell, trade or in any other way provide your information to outside parties for any reason. We appreciate the trust you put in us. ============================================================ Dream Biz Making Your eBiz Dreams a Reality! **07/14/03** Volume 1, Issue 1 Anacleto Marchi, Publisher marco01@myexcel.com ============================================================ Welcome to Dream Biz, ...
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What's your clutter keeping you from? By Linda Dessau, the Self-Care Coach So you might be asking ' what is clutter and why should I care about it? Clutter is essentially anything you don't need, don't want and get no joy from seeing. There might be 100's of items in your home or office right now that could be cleared away. The cost of having a lot of clutter around you is that it: ~ Takes up physical space and energy (consider the energy it takes to constantly walk around a pile of clutter or ...
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If you are always on the look out for a money spinner, sometimes you'll find them pop up in the most unlikely of places. A Herd Of 45,000 Website Visitors That Didn't Cost Anything... In September 2003 an amazing turn of events led to a massive flood of media coverage, which in turn sent a stampeding herd of free visitors to a brand new website. Leonard Richard is a 52 year old farmer living down under in Victoria, Australia. He was out and about on his farm not too far from his house, when a ...
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"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely..." --Ralph Waldo Emerson One of the fastest ways to increase the success of your homebased business is to do a thorough house cleaning. Sounds silly? It works. By clearing out the physical clutter and debris in your working area, you will correspondingly clear out mental clutter that ...
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Hello! Happy new year. May you live a long healthy life and prosper. According to a study by US dept. of Health & Human Services, 96% of Americans never achieve financial independence. They end up depending on charity, welfare, family, or are forced to keep working past their retirement age. According to the IRS, 85% of the people reaching age 65 years don't have even $200 in their bank accounts! US Census Bureau says that 97% of Americans never realize their dreams and desires in life, and ...
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/p> We all know that running a home business is highly satisfying, and at times downright liberating! No clock to punch, no dress code, and best of all, no boss to answer to. But there are also many facets of business ownership that entrepreneurs must stay on top of. One of those is keeping the expense to income ratio in balance. Below are seven painless ways to do just that. 1.To save on costly ink cartridges, print in draft mode, unless the printout is for a client or will be ...
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